L42A1 (new to me), Rare Maltby Conversion

[Roger Payne]

I suspect you may well be right Brian, although one minor point (which probably doesn't alter anything) is that the L42's that Charnwood got came from the MOD via Dince Hill. Charnwood were allowed to have them so long as they exported them all again. This led to the daft situation where they had to export them & then reimport some of them (60 IIRC) from CS in Canada. I know for a fact that Rob Hallam had about thirty examples in his 'personal collection' at one point! He kept so many that when they did have the big auction at Bonhams in 1998 he flooded the market & they weren't selling. Can you believe that the way things are now?! I also know how much Charnwood paid for them, rifles complete with pretty much the CES in the crates.................oh for a time machine!